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Jan.15.2013
ODE TO TORPOR
Glory be to God for the tiresome and tedious,
Glory be to God for tedium,
for no news about anything,
for newspaper strikes and power outages,
lethargy and downtime.
Postpone and delay. And again,
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Jan.15.2013
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Dec.04.2012
In the morning I like to read the poem in the Writer's Almanac. This is a daily email sent out ostensibly by Garrison Keillor, though I believe by now he has become some sort of industry and must have a number of elves keeping things going. God help NPR and all writers when he retires.
At any rate...
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Jul.26.2012
Every day he'd read poems by friends of mine, by guys who lived down the road. A poem from West Tennessee, or Middle Tennessee, or a poem from 1850. And I'd love the poem, but I'd call out, "Garrison, a little to the left! A little to the South!"...
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May.07.2012
How many out there have seen Garrison Keillor's one-man show? If you're used to his radio show, you'll have to close your eyes during the stage performance. He has this mannerism of throwing his hair back with his right hand. I wanted to give him some hair clips during...
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Mar.14.2012
My childhood improved the moment my father left. I had to grow up, of course, to know it.
Now, Mary Pols has written a book celebrating the joys and freedoms of single-motherhood and I salute her. Accidentally on Purpose is a memoir honoring her own experience and the experience of...
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Aug.12.2010
Book Note: Good Poems
Here's a book for you poetry buffs. It's stuffed with, well, as the title says, good poems. The variety is astounding, too, and comes from writers you've heard of all your life and those you haven't who are just as good. It's broken into themed categories that take the reader...
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Aug.12.2010
I had to share the good news!: Garrison Keillor selected one of my poems, "The Nose On Your Face," for his Writer's Almanac for August 28, 2010. The poem is from my new collection, Zephyr.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Zephyr was just published this summer. Two Berkeley ...
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Dec.27.2009
Garrison Keillor selected a poem from my book, Buddha's Dogs, for his Writer's Almanac website--
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/12/30
Wednesday, December 30th. You can also hear him read it on KALW at 9 a.m.
I was thrilled and wanted to pass along the news.
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Jul.09.2009
July 8-15, Santa Cruz Weekly runs "Love Poem - Ode to Santa Cruz," inspired by Garrison Keillor's recent visit and challenge to locals to come up with a poem that does justice to this amazing place. Here's my little offering...Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward pens an homage to his adopted...
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